Akamai announces "App & API Protector" to protect the web and API

　Akamai Technologies announced on November 16 the App & API Protector, a new security service that comprehensively protects websites and API environments.It responds to the spread of attacks on the web environment and promotes automation of security measures.

　Kazuhiro Nakanishi, a product marketing manager at a press conference on the same day, has expanded the threat of cyber attacks aimed at the web environment, which was mainly dealt with with web application firewalls (WAF).I pointed out.Against the increasing number of API requests from mobile applications, the API server on the backend side of the website has become threatened, and the company's endpointed API endpoints in the entire unauthorized login trials observed by the company.It is said that the ratio of attacks to aim for 20 % has reached 20 %.In addition, the risk of marketing sites operated by overseas corporations of corporate overseas corporations is increasing, and it is necessary to take a comprehensive response to the spread of threats.

　For this reason, the "Web Application and API Protection" (WAAP), which has evolved the functions of conventional WAF and at the same time, has begun to attract attention.The new service "App & API Protector" is a successor to the successor to WAF services provided by the company, and provides a combination of enhancement and evolution of countermeasures and functions for operation automation.become.

「App ＆ API Protector」サービスの概要

　WAAP function includes "API Discovery", which automatically detects API endpoints such as API servers held by the organization, automatic testing of API requests, detection and judgment of malicious botnets that attack the web environment, and defense, and defense.Provides a function that eliminates the effects of bots in digital marketing indicators such as conversion rates.

　The "Adaptive Security Engine", the core of the service, is also enhanced, so that rules and policies can be applied flexibly according to individual environments based on the status of websites and access history of protection.In addition, while improving the probability of correctly detecting 2 to 4 times, the accuracy of the misconception has been reduced to about one -fifth to increase the accuracy.

　In terms of operation, we aim to automate human work such as signature and rules applying the signature and rules by experts who had been tasks in performing high -precision defense of WAF.It has an "Automatic Mode" that can update automatic rules based on the know -how cultivated by the company and execute recommended tuning.In addition, a manual mode that users manually set are also available.According to pre -use users, 95.7 % for automatic updates of the rules, and 96.3 % for automatic tuning were positive.

セキュリティ運用の自動化による負荷軽減も特徴付ける

　The company is promoting "adaptive defense", which uses machine learning technology to automatically learns attacks and situations, and promotes "adaptive defense" to deal with high -precision, and provides this WAAP.He also emphasized that security is suitable for new development and operation styles such as DevOps.

　Hirokazu Hikuma, who was appointed president of the executive executive on November 1, was also present at the presentation."I decided to join the company because I was fascinated by the technology of Akamai. Through security, security from content distribution networks, and the spread of portfolios from edge computing, I will enhance the recognition of Akamai that supports the Internet space.Tai, "he said about his enthusiasm.

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